@ArdainianRight@WhitestTemplar Yeah. The Jedi Order often didn't see it that way though. There were no shortage of jedi in the EU who left the order due to the many failings of it and never embraced the Dark Side. There is a clear moral superiority to the Light Side but it's often rendered in a kind of two-dimensional way that many of the less well written works fall into. A lot of the "grey jedi" you see in games and such are often a critique of that overly simplistic morality.
@WashedOutGundamPilot In a way that is a good analog for modern Faustian morality, in which extracting any advantage to make line go up is good, regardless of the cost to the human soul.
@wgiwf@Largo@WashedOutGundamPilot I like how the bourbons got handed France back after Napoleon with the obvious understanding that they were gonna power share a bit with Republicans at least in name only and weren't gonna run an ol fashioned absolutist country, because you know, these guys have a history of just killing you guys when you piss em off enough
*Cue the bourbons trying to kick all the Republicans and liberals out of the government and run an absolutist country*
Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 15:10:19 JST
Ardainian Hebrew IsraeliteBeen thinking about the moral and metaphysical implications of different magic systems in fiction, and have come to the conclusion that Disney Star Wars is satanic. In traditional George Lucas Star Wars, the Light Side of the Force requires submitting yourself to the transcendent and divine, whereas the Dark Side corrupts this transcendent power for your own selfish ends. Thus there cannot be a "gray Jedi" or any kind of coherent power drawn from outside of those two sources, you have to pick a side. Disneywars pushing the idea of a "gray Jedi" is promoting the satanic lie that you can have your cake and eat it too when it comes to the supernatural.